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Make staining
stripwood super-easy
with this fixture ...
by Richard E. Napper
L
ike many of you, I buy scale wood in long strips. I
could use the old rag-soaked-in-stain method to stain
the wood, but it seemed to me there ought to be a
better way.
After giving the problem a little thought, I constructed for
myself a wood staining fixture to make it easy to apply stain
to long stripwood.
I cut a 40” long piece of 2” PVC pipe down the middle on a
table saw, using a cutting fence, and glued on two pipe end
caps. By making the fixture 40” long, stripwood pieces up to
3' in length fit easily into it.
I drilled a hole in one end cap and inserted a short ¼” diam-
eter brass tube, so I could return the staining solution to the
bottle when I was finished with a staining project.
I super-glued two square pieces of brass under one end cap
keep the fixture level and upright.
Build a Wood Staining Fixture
The Tool Shed - 1
1: Here’s the stripwood staining fixture, made out of a 40”
long piece of 2” PVC pipe. Note the ¼” brass tube on the end
to allow draining the stain back into the bottle, and the two
¼” square brass pieces super-glued to the end cap so the fix-
ture doesn’t roll around.
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To use this fixture, I put the wood strips in the pipe trough,
add the stain of choice, let it absorb, and then place the wet
wood on a window screen to dry. After cutting the wood to
length, I use a brush and the staining solution to stain any
raw ends.
So that’s the fixture. I find a staining job goes much faster
with this fixture than with the old staining cloth method,
especially when I have a lot of wood I want to stain!
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MRH-May 2013
